Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Thomas Hemsley; members of the Mermaid Theatre, London, conducted by Geraint Jones; H.M.V.). A charming short opera by the finest English composer of all time. Its attractions include a witches' dance, a laughing chorus, a sailors' dance, a hunt scene (with thunderstorm) and, of course, love both requited and tragic. Highlight: Flagstad singing When I Am Laid in Earth...
Time for a Change. In 1926, Harrison was the picture of a struggling young architect. He had saved up enough money to support a wife, a tall, 22-year-old blonde named Ellen Hunt Milton, whose brother had married John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s daughter, Abby. They were living in a small, two-room apartment in Manhattan's East 70s when Harrison's old teacher, Harvey Corbett, offered him a partnership. Harrison jumped at the chance, and for "the next four years designed a series of auditoriums and office buildings with Corbett. Architecture was almost his entire...
I.D.S. has three other subsidiaries which invest mainly in real estate, and make I.D.S. the sixth biggest U.S. mortgage owner. I.D.S. has financed huge multimillion-dollar shopping centers at Wilmington, Chicago and Los Angeles. Last week, in a hunt for profitable new fields of real-estate investment, it spent $45,000 for advertising in a nationwide survey to determine i) where elderly, retired couples plan to live, and 2) what kind of housing they prefer (i.e., small homes, apartment kitchenettes, or what) When the returns are in, I.D.S. hopes to reach a lucrative new market that no big investor...
...vainly scouted the Williston Basin since the early '20s, Jacobsen last year sank the well that tapped one of the country's richest oil pools. But shrewd Oilman Jacobsen did not rest on the triumph; he already had his seismograph crews roaming north west Alberta in a hunt for new treasure. Oilmen have long guessed that an oil-rich coral-reef formation underlies Alberta's Peace River Basin, about 200 miles northwest of Canada's vast Leduc field, and have spent years hunting...
...Mixer. In Chicago, after a ten-day hunt for Truck Driver Dumonte Ashley Parker and a missing truckload of 750 cases of gin, police finally found the truck, short 250 cases, and Parker tipsy in a nearby tavern, where he indignantly told them: "I drink whisky myself...